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/fˈɪŋgərɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Fingering n.

1.

The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. "The mere sight and fingering of money."

2.

The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.

3.

The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.

4.

Delicate work made with the fingers.

verb

Finger v. t. (past & past part. fingered; pres. part. fingering)

1.

To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with. "Let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me."

2.

To touch lightly; to toy with.

3.

(Mus.)

(a)

To perform on an instrument of music.

(b)

To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.

4.

To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.

5.

To execute, as any delicate work.

Finger v. i. (Mus.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.

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Etymology of 'Fingering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fingering" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the face and edged towards him fingering with his dripping fingers the hilt of ...

— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]

... weapon, and straightway I longed to draw it and end his life at once, while all sorts of plans for escape thereafter came into my mind. But I could not slay a helpless man, even this one, though I sat fingering the dagger for a long while. At last the evilness of these thoughts was plain to me; so quickly I cast the dagger overboard, and ...

— Wulfric the Weapon Thane • Charles W. Whistler

... hands on the handles, ready. They screamed and gesticulated with excitement. And Frank Drayton leaned back in his office chair and looked at them, and burst out laughing, because, he said, they made such funny faces. When they got to fingering their knives, he tilted back his chair and rocked with laughter. His sudden, incredible mirth frightened them and stopped the mutiny. She could see him, she could see his face jerked ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... beside him in the night, And, fingering his red stone, I chase through endless forests dark Seeking that thing unknown, That which is not red deer or bull, But which by them ...

— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various

... beach—Tony, John, and myself. Every article of underclothing in duplicate, a couple of guernseys and a coat or two were next to nakedness. We were bloated with clothes, but that northerly air, it seemed to be fingering our very skins. Yet there was hardly wind enough to fill the sail. Ricketty-rock, ricketty-rock, went the sweeps between the thole-pins, as we rowed to the fishing ground six miles or so away. Not one of us wished to shirk the heavy work. 'Twas ...

— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds

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